History Trivia / GunsNRoses

* ThrowItIn: Producer Spencer Proffer suggested adding a breakdown after Slash's solo in "Sweet Child o' Mine". The band agreed, but didn't know what they wanted to do. Axl started saying to himself "Where do we go, where do we go now?" while listening to the demo in a loop. Proffer suggested that he sing that, and the rest is history.

** The Riverport Riot, to the point where people associated with the Riverport Amphitheatre and the incident in question are still sore about what had happened and every major venue in the city had blacklisted them. There's still bad blood between GNR and St. Louis today; a commercial being broadcast on KSHE in 2011 was interrupted simply because the music in the background happened to be "Paradise City", and on GNR's official site for their [[ThreeDMovie 3D concert film]] ''Appetite for Democracy'', the state is apparently deliberately misspelt as "Misuri" in the section listing the showtimes.

* ThrowItIn: "Sweet Child O'Mine" was written in one sitting on the back of a bus. As nobody wrote anything for the aftermath of Slash's solo, they lampshaded the situation instead of writing another verse : "Where do we go, where do we go now?"

** ''Chinese Democracy'', the musical equivalent to VideoGame/DukeNukemForever, took 15 years to be released.

* WriteWhoYouKnow: Three in their debut, "My Michelle" (a friend of Axl), "Sweet Child O'Mine" (his then-girlfriend) and "Rocket Queen" (a girl who Axl knew and wanted to have a band by this name).

* DirectedByCastMember: The original idea and initial layout for the game came from Slash himself, who is a major pinball fan and collector.

** Let's just say there's a reason why they only performed "One in a Million" a few times between ''Appetite for Destruction'' and ''GNR Lies'', and not at all after.

* OneOfUs: Slash, who is addicted to ''VideoGame/RockBand'', is a fan of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', and '''designed''' the [[Pinball/GunsNRoses GNR pinball machine.]]

* FakeBrit: "Down on the Farm"
** An attempt at an English accent so dire, it makes Axl a prime contender for the Creator/DickVanDyke of hard rock.

* RetroactiveRecognition: A year before the release of the first Music/BlindMelon album, Shannon Hoon contributed backing vocals to six songs on ''Use Your Illusion I'' [[note]]Plus the "alternate lyrics" version of "Don't Cry" from ''Use Your Illusion II'', if you count that as a separate song[[/note]], where he's credited in the liner notes simply as "Shannon". He's probably most recognizable on "Don't Cry" and "The Garden". The "Don't Cry" video also featured Hoon performing alongside the band.

---->--Slash, ''Rip'' magazine, January 1995

---->--Slash, ''Rip'' magazine, January 1995

---->--Slash, ''Rip'' magazine, January 1995

->"You know, there hasn't been a good rock 'n' roll [pinball] machine in, like, 15 years... I thought, well, ''Guns'' is a well-enough known name that we could probably do one. So I started drawing out the game, then I started sketching, writing down the rules..."
--->--Slash, ''Rip'' magazine, January 1995

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: If the band hadn't essentially disappeared off the face of the planet in the mid-'90s despite being one of music's biggest rock bands at the time, there's no telling just how much bigger they could have become.

** An attempt at an English accent so dire, it makes Axl a prime contender for the DickVanDyke of hard rock.

* RetroactiveRecognition: A year before the release of the first Music/BlindMelon album, Shannon Hoon contributed backing vocals to six songs on ''Use Your Illusion I'' [[hottip:*: Plus the "alternate lyrics" version of "Don't Cry" from ''Use Your Illusion II'', if you count that as a separate song]], where he's credited in the liner notes simply as "Shannon". He's probably most recognizable on "Don't Cry" and "The Garden". The "Don't Cry" video also featured Hoon performing alongside the band.

* HeyItsThatVoice: A year before the release of the first Music/BlindMelon album, Shannon Hoon contributed backing vocals to six songs on ''Use Your Illusion I'' [[hottip:*: Plus the "alternate lyrics" version of "Don't Cry" from ''Use Your Illusion II'', if you count that as a separate song]], where he's credited in the liner notes simply as "Shannon". He's probably most recognizable on "Don't Cry" and "The Garden". The "Don't Cry" video also featured Hoon performing alongside the band.

* HeyItsThatVoice: A year before the release of the first Music/BlindMelon album, Shannon Hoon contributed backing vocals to six songs on ''Use Your Illusion I'' [[hottip:*: Plus the "alternate lyrics" version of "Don't Cry" from Use Your Illusion II'', if you count that as a separate song]], where he's credited in the liner notes simply as "Shannon". He's probably most recognizable on "Don't Cry" and "The Garden". The "Don't Cry" video also featured Hoon performing alongside the band.

* HeyItsThatVoice: A year before the release of the first BlindMelon album, Shannon Hoon contributed backing vocals to six songs on ''Use Your Illusion I'' [[hottip:*: Plus the "alternate lyrics" version of "Don't Cry" from Use Your Illusion II'', if you count that as a separate song]], where he's credited in the liner notes simply as "Shannon". He's probably most recognizable on "Don't Cry" and "The Garden". The "Don't Cry" video also featured Hoon performing alongside the band.

* HeyItsThatVoice: A year before the release of the first BlindMelon album, Shannon Hoon contributed backing vocals to six songs on ''Use Your Illusion I'' [[hottip:*: Plus the "alternate lyrics" version of "Don't Cry" from Use Your Illusion II'', if you count that as a separate song]], where he's credited simply as "Shannon". He's probably most recognizable on "Don't Cry" and "The Garden". The "Don't Cry" video also featured Hoon performing alongside the band.

** HeyItsThatVoice: [[Music/BlindMelon Shannon Hoon]] contributed backing vocals to six songs on ''Use Your Illusion I'' [[hottip:*: Plus the "alternate lyrics" version of "Don't Cry" from Use Your Illusion II'', if you count that as a separate song]], which was released a year before Blind Melon had their debut. He's probably most recognizable on "Don't Cry" and "The Garden". The "Don't Cry" video also featured Hoon performing alongside the band.

* ThrowItIn: "Sweet Child O'Mine" was written in one sitting on the back of a bus. As nobody wrote anything for the aftermath of Slash's solo, they lambshaded the situation instead of writing another verse : "Where do we go, where do we go now?"

* ThrowItIn: "Sweet Child O'Mine" was recorded in one take. As Axl didn't have anything written after Slash's solo, he started improvising by lampshading the situation: "Where do we go, where do we go now?"

* PersonaNonGrata - The group is banned from performing in St. Louis after the infamous Riverport Riot that started when a fan pressed Axl Rose's BerserkButton. Their music, however, is not banned in St. Louis. Ironically, their current rhythm guitarist, Richard Fortus, is from St. Louis.
** A 2011 radio commercial that's running on the St. Louis classic rock station KSHE 95 (their actual frequency number is 94.7) references this; 2011 is the 20th anniversary of Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, previously known as Riverport. The riot occurred there. Guns N' Roses' Paradise City starts playing in the background of a commercial, then there's high-pitched mic feedback as the music stops, footsteps in the background, and the voiceover says "Sorry... he's still a little sore about that" referencing the riot and the band's subsequent ban from St. Louis.
* BannedInChina - Apparently the Chinese Cultural Department has issues with the entirety of ''Chinese Democracy'', despite just the title track bothering them. It's also the basis for a bad joke: Chinese Democracy is banned in China. Also the ''Guns N Roses'' album.
* ThePeteBest - The original line-up was Axl, Tracii Guns, Izzy, Ole Beich and Rob Gardner. Yes, only two of them are in the image atop of the main page.